Canopy closure exerts weak controls on understory dynamics: a 30-year study of overstory–understory interactions

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  2013

• Venue

  Ecological Monographs

• Publication date

  2013-05-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/12-1696.1
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